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VMware Engineer Confirms macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Bug Causes Crashes with Virtualization
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I have a co-worker who is on High-Sierra.
His iMac came with it, I assume, and that's what he's sticking with.
I do use the latest iOS on my iPhone - but mostly because they never patch previous versions on hardware that supports the latest version and it's damn near impossible or incredibly annoying to try to not upgrade iOS.
I'm running a Late 2015 27" iMac with Catalina version 10.15.6 and the latest version of VMWare Fusion. No problems to report, and I don't reboot that often, either. Now, with that can said, I can confirm I've had issues with VirtualBox, but VirtualBox has had issues on macs long before Catalina.
I just updated my windows 10 VM yesterday, and my Linux VMs today, without issues. For Me, Catalina has been pretty rock solid past the first initial releases which had the new release bugs. For me, it was a combination of Apple's bugs, and third party apps, that hadn't yet been updated, or optimized for Catalina.
Just FYI: I usually can go a month, or two without a reboot, now with that said I usually do, because of updates, or something else that requires it, or just to clean memory, cache, etc.
I just updated my windows 10 VM yesterday, and my Linux VMs today, without issues. For Me, Catalina has been pretty rock solid past the first initial releases which had the new release bugs. For me, it was a combination of Apple's bugs, and third party apps, that hadn't yet been updated, or optimized for Catalina.
Just FYI: I usually can go a month, or two without a reboot, now with that said I usually do, because of updates, or something else that requires it, or just to clean memory, cache, etc.
A Windows machine with an uptime of 10 days? MSFT really has come a long way!
I'm on Catalina, wish I stayed on Mojave. El Cap & High Sierra were pretty solid for me ... Apple's QA has gone downhill in many ways in recent years, especially on the desktop.
I'm on a Mac mini with the latest VMware (which exploits the sandbox) and now VMware use makes my machine panic. I reboot my VMs a fair amount (part of testing), plus it is the latest VMware which would use the latest MacOS features like sandboxing. I really hope there's a supplemental-update that fixes this. Someone said they think everyone's on Big Sur duty now, which might explain some of the lapses that plague Catalina.
(edit) I wonder what VMware revision those who are running on Catalina are using? That would be useful data, especially from those who have not encountered problems. Mine is Version 11.5.5 (16269456).
(edit) I wonder what VMware revision those who are running on Catalina are using? That would be useful data, especially from those who have not encountered problems. Mine is Version 11.5.5 (16269456).
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Yup, my Mac Mini also locked up over night while my VMware was on. Now I have to shut it off at night so I can't log on to work on it. Terrible. Hopefully Apple issues and update soon.
The problem isn't specific to VMware: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=99161
The bug is in the operating system, not in Fusion.
Of course, BUT the MacOS feature, the sandbox, might be something not used by older versions of VMware, AND I think I saw some reports earlier that "My VMware + Catalina is working fine", which makes me wonder if those reports are using pre-sandbox-exploiting versions of VMware.
I've been bitten multiple times by this one. It sucks. I have to use Windoze VM for work - or worse, agree to let them manage my Mac. Not a chance for the latter one!
A few minutes ago I had to hard cycle my 16" because Fusion went bonkers yet again.
Here's another "Hopefully fixed in Big Sur" user. :-/
A few minutes ago I had to hard cycle my 16" because Fusion went bonkers yet again.
Here's another "Hopefully fixed in Big Sur" user. :-/
This release has been a mess running VMs under Virtualbox. I ran two VMs on an old Macbook Pro, one with Home Assistant and one with a PBX system. Since installing this release, the box rebooted several times a day. Tried moving the VMs to run on an old Mac Mini and had the same results. Not good.
Mountain Lion was also pretty decent, IIRC.
What legal leverage does Intel have over Microsoft, pray tell? Also, no, as a matter of fact WoA can run x86 (as in, x86-32) apps, albeit with a performance penalty. And as for that patent sharing agreement, do post relevant links. As far as I can remember, the only thing Intel did was give Apple advance access to certain chips, and allow Apple to somewhat influence them on their designs.
Exactly. Now, the million dollar questions are: why is performance so atrocious, when Apple managed to get it to an acceptable level with Rosetta 2 (perhaps because it relies in on-the-fly translation, kind of like Rosetta [1]?), and if and when will they also offer the same compatibility layer for x86-64. Maybe if Apple starts kicking Intel, AMD and Qualcomm’s collective asses and Microsoft realizes they must get WoA and their custom SoCs to a competitive level?
Eh, maybe. I'm having this issue, but I don't usually report my Mac issues to my university's IT. I wind up explaining the problem to three different people, all of whom lack the expertise with Macs to assist.
I have Horizon 5.4.3 and have not had any trouble like that on 10.15.6 on my 2020 MBA or my 2019 iMac 27”. I only use a single Windows 10 VDI.
I am having same issue here, tried nemuplayer, BlueStacks, Noxplayer all the same result.
I even wiped everything reinstalling fresh os and situation remain the same. Always crash after a few hours
Just happened on my 16' as well. Lost some progress on an excel doc and bombed me out of a Zoom meeting. Nice
well at least it’s nowhere near as horrible as El Capitain lol. That was a hell of a waste of engineering work.
VMware submitting details in full to Apple, now that is what I call a platinum partner! Well done.
Here’s an example of the fun & games I get if I keep a VM up for more than a few days. When a kernel leak has the effect of killing off critical processes, all bets are off!
